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Southern Humboldt Woman Named to State’s New Cannabis Advisory Committee

Kristin Nevedal photo from the International Cannabis Farmers Association

This week, Kristin Nevedal of Southern Humboldt was named to the brand new Cannabis Advisory Committee that works under the Bureau of Cannabis Control. Nevedal first became active in the local cannabis community. Later, she began participating in statewide organizing efforts. Eventually, she began working for Americans for Safe Access and then began working to coordinate with international efforts to promote sun grown cannabis.

Below is the press release from the Bureau of Cannabis Control:

The Department of Consumer Affairs today announced the members of the state’s new Cannabis Advisory Committee under the Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC).

The committee will advise BCC and the other licensing authorities – the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Department of Public Health – on the development of regulations that help protect public health and safety and reduce the illegal market for cannabis.

“The department received hundreds of qualified applications for the committee and reviewed all of them during the selection process,” said Department of Consumer Affairs Director Dean R. Grafilo. “These individuals represent the diverse backgrounds of California and the cannabis industry and have the necessary experience to make the committee successful.”

The members appointed by Department of Consumer Affairs Director Dean R. Grafilo include:

Committee members serve at the pleasure of the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs. Members will not be paid, but will be reimbursed for any necessary travel for approved advisory committee meetings.

BCC will work with the new members to set a date for the first meeting of the advisory committee. Additional information and meeting agendas will soon be posted at www.bcc.ca.gov, and on the Cannabis Web Portal, www.cannabis.ca.gov.

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Just for your information, but be advised.

An interesting assortment of characters on this committee! It very much appears that they will agree on not much… Humboldt thinks they have a corner, but Cannabis is everywhere! If you want to survive in Cannabis, it is time to form a group, process and deal as a co-op or even a corporation, learn to brand, market, advertise… This is not rocket science! Will bud be sold at the farmer’s market for $20/lb?

The future is already written. Anybody living on weak dreams and hippie hopes is about to be annihilated. Sell out now at top dollar and run far away. It is going down and will not come back up for 20 years- that’s real estate. Weed prices- they will never come back. Thank a mega-grower millionaire on your way out- for “everything they did for the community”.

Exactly, all these pieces of land in Thorn and Ettersburg that people think are worth a million bucks ain’t going to be worth squat in a few years . The value of the land was based on the fact that you could make good money off it . Now you can’t make much and it’s going to get worse . Have fun in EB come winter time when you’re cold and broke . Have fun applying for work at shop smart .

I hope the property prices drop so I can afford to buy something in the hills to raise my kids have 300 thou in cash and can’t find nothing but shacks it’s ridiculously overpriced at this point keeping my fingers crossed

Those places aren’t selling. The bottom has fallen out . There’s a ton of places for sale near me, no one even looking at them. Also, people want to be cashed out with legal money so they can leave this shit show and buy somewhere far away from this shit show. Growers have mostly buried cash, that won’t work.

Buzzard , remember the Calif. Lotto bill that came up for a vote about 15 years ago, They said it would support our schools and improve Calif. education. That turned out to be the biggest lie the Government has ever told us. Now they want to tax another sin, Drugs. Gambling and drugs , Next will be the taxing of Sex. just like Thailand, A bustling sex industry with all the problems that brings. none of these will work. the government wants easy money just like the freeloading travelers that choke up our natural resources. The growers know that POT is no more easy money. Everything about it is difficult, from cloning to growing, harvesting, trimming, drying selling. I work my ass off and my Net income is around 40-50 K a year. Time to move on.